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While the show has some extremely high points, it's also a very slow pace and often drawn-out moments and storylines that could have been standalone episodes in the Breaking Bad universe.

The show is cast beautifully, with many memorable performances. However, like my title says, I believe the network ordered too many episodes, and the seasons were too long for the material they had. The last season could easily have been 8 episodes instead of 13, but as things become too popular, too much is made of it.

I would recommend this series, but there is a reason the first time I tried to watch it, I stopped...

It's a bit wasted, but as Saul said himself.

"It's about the money, what else?"

If you thought Seinfeld's inane observations are the height of comedy, if you laugh at the fact that fart in Swedish means speed.

This might be for you.

I could bear about 10 minutes in total. Not only does John have a voice that only a manager at the DMV could love, but he also says nothing original or interesting.

The show I have seen so far is about how awkward he is and how society treats him

Oh, I'm too afraid, I sound too girlish, I look like a child, etc.

This seems to be for the person who wants to turn off their brain and laugh with others who have logged out.

Nothing wrong with that, but really not for anyone who enjoys clever, witty sentences, rounded up in some truth or societal issue.

While I put it at 4, that is my ranking. This is not for someone like me, but I am 100% ok if you like it.

While the movie itself is an ok watch, it's pretty obvious that Oliver Stone wants to say too much about Vietnam in too short of a time. He tries to cram in the horrors of war, the unfairness of a draft, and drugs, without really giving a realistic view of it.

In the movie, we get to follow Chris Taylor a naive young boy who wishes to prove himself and be one with the people despite having a privileged upbringing. Chris is rapidly displaying behaviors that take a long time to manifest, the psychology is just not there and is not realistic, while trying to show the mind of man Oliver Stone leaps forward to the action rather than taking some time to show a change in the character. The dialogue is simplistic and unrealistic. Again it's just a means to get to the action and the finale of the movie.

In essence, it just feels rushed, this should have been 4-6 episodes of a series, rather than a movie. The acting is over the top of most characters and since I know them to be good actors I assume it's the directing.

I think the movie is fine to watch, I think some people can get something from it, and the moral of the movie is fine. It's just nowhere close to Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now which are in their own way both disturbing and thought-provoking.

I give it a 6, because it's for me around 6.7, but a 7 is too generous.

Willem Dafoe is the only saving grace.